Toilet-paper



(No Model.)

0. H. HICKS.

TOILBT PAPER. No. 421,497. Patente-d Peb. 1a, 1890.

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VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OLIVER I'I. tI-IICKS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOILETMPAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,497, dated February18, 1890.

Application filed August 26, 1889. Serial No. 321,976. (No model.)

l Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Toilet-Paper; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, and to the figures and letters of referencemarked thereon.

There toilet-paper is furnished in the form of a perforated web woundinto a rollit is the common practice for the consumer to use two sheetsat a time, said two sheets being secured either by detachin g themseparately from the roll and then placing them together, or else bydetaching them together (while still connected) and afterward foldingone upon the other. The latter method is of course preferable, becausewhen the connected sheets are folded upon the line of perforationsbetween them there is greater certainty of the one sheet coveringtheother at all points; but ordinarily in this kind of paper theperforations are of such a character as to require considerable forceand some skill to always effect a separation of the sheets at the pointswhere said perforations are made, and if a different kind of perforationis employed to afford tearingdines of greater weakness the difficulty ofseparating two sheets at a time is increased, and the user who wishes tohave two superposed sheets must take them off one by one and thencombine them, with the risk of not getting them to match at all points.

It was with a view to enabling the consumer to always with certaintydetach two sheets together and at the same time enable him to fold onesheet on the other with accuracy that my present improvement wasdevised. To that end said improvement consists, first, in a web of paperprovided at regular intervals with lines of eXtreme weakness and atintermediate points with lines of less weakness, whereby when the freeend of the web is pulled a portion representing two sheets will bedetached on a line of extreme weakness, which portion can then he foldedon the line of less weakness, so as to afford two sheets whichaccurately register with each other.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a webweakened in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 a piece detachedfrom the web and partially folded, and Fig. 3 a roll formed from myimproved web.

Similar letters lof reference in the several figures indicate the sameparts.

The letter A indicates the web of paper, b the lines of extremeweakness,and c the lines of less weakness. The lines b are preferably formed by aseries of angular or wavy cuts l, which leave only narrowconnecting-pieces 2, while the lines c are preferably formed ofperforations 3, which may be of the shape shown or of any of the otherforms shown in my patent, No. 405,412, of .I une 18, 1889, or simplyround, as in the ordinary rolls of perforated paper. When the end of aweb cut in this manner is drawn upon, a piece of the length of twoordinary sheets is separated on one of the lines b, and then can bereadily folded on the intermediate line c, so as to afford twosuperposed and evenly-matched layers for use. Not only are the lines ofweakness b produced by the series of angular or wavy cutsverysusceptible to a pulling strain upon the end of the web, but theyare conspicuous and enable the consumer to readily see just where theseparation is about to take place. claim, per se, to such lines ofweakness, as they form the subject-matter of a contemporaneousapplication filed by me.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- A web ofpaper perforated at regular inter vals with lines of extreme weaknessand at intermediate points with lines of less weakness, substantially asand for the purpose specified.

OLIVER I-I. HICKS.

W'itnesses:

FRED W. Jon, WALTER HAMON.

I do not, however, make any broad

